Dear Friends and Students,
Welcome to my next story @ Inspire to Innovate
Storytelling Movement.
Last week, Sails Software (sailssoftware.com)
invited me as a guest for their Annual Day Celebrations, beautifully
coined SAIL’RS NITE 2024. I was asked to talk on “AI
and the Future of Programming,” as well as engage in discussions with its
leaders on “The Role of Innovation and Collaboration in the Present Times.”
Sails Software is a growing mid-sized IT company
with more than 180 employees. This organization has adopted various IT best
practices, especially cultivating an impeccable delivery culture, an eye for
detailing, and design thinking.
I worked with Wipro between 1998 to 2010, a
different era in software development that I consider IT 2.0. However, now, the
world of software development is becoming a thrilling space where innovation
and collaboration together redefine the possibilities.
Interestingly, the line between "creator
and consumer" is truly blurring, and who is going to replace who is
completely unknown.
As a programmer, if you don't innovate, a domain
specialist is going to shortly replace you as we are all heading towards
the End of Programming.
2024 is all about AI Augmented Development (AIAD)
(IT 3.0). AI Augmented Development refers to integrating AI
tools and techniques throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) to
empower developers and enhance the development process. Similar to UX, it now
brings DX - Developer Experience.
During 2024-26, it's not about replacing developers
but providing intelligent assistants to developers.
Ultimately, whether it's IT 1.0, IT 2.0, or IT 3.0,
the IT industry always works towards four important goals:
1. Increased developer productivity.
2. Improved software quality.
3. Faster time to market.
4.
Enhanced innovation.
But going forward, there is a twist. The industry
would ask you, "Are you AI Fluent" or "Are you an AI
Expert?" If you don't belong to any
of these two categories, it is a sign of extinction for you from the industry!
Let me narrate a hypothetical SDLC story. If you
comply with this by at least 20% during 2024, you are relevant; otherwise, make
yourself relevant.
My Story Begins!
I want to start a company. However, I don't have
any HR or Tech Interviewers.
Tech/HR Interviews:
I approached mockathon.skill2030.com, an AI-powered
Metaverse Interview Platform, to complete the basic first Tech and HR rounds.
These six avatars in three different accents (male & female) could manage
and shortlist the final candidates!
Problem Study and Research Paper:
It used to take me 50 hours earlier to develop a
research paper. However, now the team is using Jenni.ai or perplexity.ai and
completing it in 5 hours!
Management Presentation:
The team used Decktopus AI and made a presentation
in 1 hour! Management approved and asked them to convert it to a Specification.
Proposal & Requirements Specs:
The team formatted the proposal using Jasper.ai or
Grammarly in 2 hours, which used to take 2 days. They also collected more
insights from various customer chats/conversations and emails using a tool
named Chatfuel.
Design:
The team used Uizard, an AI-powered design tool, to
build UI design - Wireframes to Mockups to Prototypes.
Implementation:
All my team members have Copilot accounts. Their
coding productivity improved by 35-45%.
Code Review:
Surprisingly, DeepCode reviewed the code changes
and provided instant feedback. It gave a 30% productivity boost!
Testing:
The team used Parasoft Automated Unit Testing
powered with AI.
Infra Provisioning:
Terraform Self-healing infrastructure is ready! AI
is capable of automatically adjusting resource allocation and configuration
based on application workload and real-time usage, bringing optimized resource
utilization and cost savings!
Deploy:
My team is capable of CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins.
Bug Tracking:
The team is already familiar with Jira, but my
customers are adding bugs in their native language. Jira can understand Natural
Language Processing.
Project Management:
An AI-powered Asana powers my PM!
Meanwhile, some team members started using
Lowcode/Nocode platforms! They also began using Blockchain for
decentralization.
Friends,
It is a long story, but the crux is here. If you
don't become AI literate, it will not give you time to adjust in this tsunami!
Why? Look at these numbers:
1. Waterfall Model - 1970 to 2000 - 30 Years
2. Agile – 2000-2015 - 15 Years
3. DevOps - 2015-2020 - 5 Years
4. DevSecOps - 2020-2023 - 3 Years
5. MLOps - 2023-to date - Less than a Year
6.
Next Cycle - Every 6 Months!!!!!
The same thing happened to the Media Industry. The
same cycles:
1. Radio took 38 Years to reach the first 5 crore
Listeners
2. TV took 13 Years to reach the first 5 crore Viewers
3. Internet took 4 Years to reach the first 5 crore
users
4. iPod took 3 years to reach the first crore users
5.
Facebook added 600,000 users per day itself!!
Can you imagine the time for a product to innovate?
What do you need to do?
AI has become Bhasmasura, a demon granted the power to burn up and
immediately turn into ashes anyone whose head he touched with his hand. The
asura was tricked by Vishnu's only female avatar, the enchantress Mohini, to
turn himself into ashes.
Now, if you, as a developer, don't take up the
Mohini Developer Avatar, you will be smashed by your AI creation.
Do you agree?
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